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The Unnatural Properties of a Designer "Sponge"Tuesday, March 03, 2015
A rubber sheet with weird properties, held by Bastiaan Florijn of Leiden University. Credit: Mike LucibellaNearly 10,000 physicists have descended on San Antonio this week for the annual American Physical Society March Meeting, the largest meeting of pro...
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Building An Earthquake Resistant HomeFriday, February 27, 2015
Earthquakes are unexpected, terrifying and can hit at any time, causing major destruction and even death.More than 1.3 million earthquakes of varying magnitudes rattle our world each year destroying homes and changing the landscape of cities around th...
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The First Colorblind, Ultrathin Lens Is DevelopedThursday, February 26, 2015
A new kind of flat, ultrathin lens has been created by Harvard physicists that can focus multiple colors of light in the same spot.Traditional lenses and other optical devices focus different colors in different places, requiring multiple lenses to creat...
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Podcast: The Physics Behind the Silver ScreenWednesday, February 25, 2015
Have you ever sat in a movie theater and wondered how the projector gets an image onto the screen? It turns out there's a lot of physics that goes into it, whether you're using a traditional film projector, digital, or the latest laser technology. On to...
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Hunting Language Sounds Through HistoryTuesday, February 24, 2015
All languages evolve over time, but finding how and when certain changes happen is a daunting task for linguists faced with an overwhelming amount of data. Now researchers from the U.S. and the U.K. have used a statistical technique popular in physics to...
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A More Finely Tuned UniverseMonday, February 23, 2015
Could life as we know it have developed if fundamental physics constants were different?Originally published: Feb 20 2015 - 12:15pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Gabriel Popkin, Contributor(Inside Science) -- For all the progress physicists have made i...
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Zealots Help Sway Popular OpinionsFriday, February 20, 2015
Enthusiasts can greatly influence the adoption of new ideas. Image credit: Gabriel Saldana via Flickr | http://bit.ly/1E9IjCQ Rights information:http://bit.ly/1dWcOPS Opinions rarely form in a vacuum. People are heavily inf...
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